Emergency Kitting Transition: Sweden to Jacksonville in 90 Days

In late January 2026, the brand’s Swedish 3PL shut down. Staff had left, the facility couldn’t ship, and 64 kitted SKUs, plus the European supply that flowed through them, needed a new home.

The window was 90 days. Any disruption during the move meant stock-outs across 13 countries and regions. The brand brought Izba in on January 26 with a hard close of April 30.

Our approach

We started by checking the scope against the NetSuite item list, since the SOW only gave us the headline count. Tagging every item against production reality showed that most of the assembly work was already running through the brand’s existing vendors. Pulling it into a new facility mid-transition would have added complexity to a site that was already absorbing the kitting move.

By mid-February the team agreed on the split: Jacksonville handles kitting, and vendors keep assembly. Izba built the RFQ package so the brand’s procurement team could move quickly.

From there, the work ran in two waves. Wave 1 covered the 13 highest-priority kits. Eleven were delivered by March 17, and the last two cleared shortly after. Wave 2 picked up the broader EU and global regions through April. Two Jacksonville site visits let us run first articles with Ryder operators on the floor, and gave the brand’s quality team direct sign-off before ramp.

We closed April 30. By then, the brand and Ryder teams were already running the Slack channel, the shared Drive tracker and the Greenlight approval workflow on their own.

The outcome

• 64 kitted SKUs transitioned from Sweden to Jacksonville
• 63 work instructions delivered across 9 kit families and 13 countries and regions
• Zero stock-outs in European markets through the cutover
• $1.43M vendor RFQ package handed to procurement: 33 SKUs, 6 suppliers, 249,360 units of 2026 budget
• 3-month engagement, closed on time

The assembly handback gave procurement a supplier-segmented file with translated instructions, complexity ratings, MOQs and budget math. They could send it to vendors the day they received it.

The brand left with current work instructions its QA team approved, a quality flow it owns, and a vendor package that puts assembly back with the vendors, where it made more sense all along.